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The War That Made Us

Shivshankar Menon

Srinath Raghavan’s magisterial history of World War II is a graphic reminder that an integrated Subcontinent is essential to the rise and strategic safety of India

The Hashtag Generation

Sonali Acharjee

From career builder to status clincher, social media has made itself indispensable in small town India

Doctor No

Prabha Chandran

A couple of activist doctors expose the rot in Indian healthcare

Gone Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Shylashri Shankar

Is Nordic Noir past its gory days?

Daddy in the Shadows

Bunny Suraiya

A gripping novel where the son gets to know himself better through his raucous uncles and absent father

Two on a Trip

Jai Arjun Singh

A well-told memoir on drug abuse, the saviour and the saved

The Enigma of Evil

Vineet Gill

This realistic portrait of post-traumatic madness is a moral fable as well

The Big Small Book

Devapriya Roy

A deft reminder of how quiet lives lived in quiet pockets can reveal the human condition

Shakespeare: My Master’s Voice

Rajat Kapoor

I went to Shakespeare’s burial place in Stratford when we had gone with Hamlet for a three-week tour to the UK. I said a little prayer. I don’t believe in god or religion, I asked for something which is now between me and him